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Dawn K. Wing
BIO
Dawn Wing is Associate Professor of Library and Information Services at Metro State University in St. Paul, MN. Her interests include visual poetry, zines, sculptural books, comics, and multi-modal, interdisciplinary approaches to research and pedagogy. She is a recipient of the 2024 Minnesota State Art Board - Creative Individuals grant, and is currently completing her Core Certificate in Book Arts at Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
Website: www.waterpigpress.com
Social Media: IG: @comixdawn
ARTIST STATEMENT
I create pop-out, poetry books and zines inspired by my Chinese heritage, Mother Earth, and Japanese literary and paper arts traditions such as manga, haiga, haiku, tanka, suminagashi, origami and orihon. I enjoy producing specific visual and physical paper textures through orizomegami, suminagashi, marbling and other decorative paper art techniques, and how they create a sense of place and mood in my visual poetry books. I experiment with various accordion book and zine formats in which to publish “comiku” (comics+ haiku) and other micro-poetry formats that bridge the personal and collective experiences of being alive on Earth, across space and time. I enjoy facilitating public workshops on creating visual poetry through book arts.
ARTIST'S WORK
Various “comiku” (comics + haiku) + tanka, illustrated zines
7" x 4.25" closed; 14" x 4.25" open
Digital copies of mixed media visual poetry on paper
Dandelions
2.5" x 2.5" closed; 3.25" x 17" open
Digital prints of mixed media visual poetry on cardstock
This is How We Survived
2.5" x 2.5" closed; 3.25" x 17" open
Digital prints of mixed media visual poetry on cardstock; suminagashi end-papers
Various marbled prints (4 pieces total)
12" x 16"
Acrylic on paper
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